It Came from the Walmart...

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

My husband just sent me this.

Now, I'll own it. I shop there a bit because it's literally around the corner from me (and so few things are out here on the corner of BFE and Nowhere). And, I'm not perfect: I have bad hair days and I'm not a fashionista by any stretch of the imagination.

But, damnitall, some of these pictures really do defy the imagination.

Sometimes, as writers, don't you feel like reality has an unfair advantage? I mean, nothing is too absurd to "really happen"...but if you wrote it in a book, play, or short story you KNOW there would be someone to say "nah, not believable enough."

Wayne K said:

People still wear "White Pride" in public?

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Only if they don't live in certain sections of Baltimore, I'm assuming.

veinglory said:

The white pride gits are asking for it, but many of the posts seem to be about laughing at fat and/or mentally disturbed people. Oh and some poor woman trying to express a little christmas cheer with a funny hat?

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I really got a good chuckle out of the scooter-riding old man in the fairy costume. Now there's a story.

Seriously, though. I don't feel bad for these people at all. I find it perfectly plausible that the joke is actually on the rest of us folks that have the nerve to think we're "normal".

I recall a community college class I took once. It was French. There was an SCA person in the class learning French to please her queen and fulfill her royal duties. She came to class dressed in full regalia with an ornate Spanish sword in its scabbard.

Freaked out the rest of the people, but she was happy as a clam. So, I suppose you have to look at it as a point for her, ultimately.

As the Cheshire cat rightly pointed out: we're all mad here.

http://www.ship-of-fools.com/gadgets/index.html

Okay, for the non-Walmart set, here's a liberal Christian site poking fun at some of the other sheep of the fold.

lucidzfl said:

HOLY SHIT IS THAT SERIOUS?

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Check out the caption competition, too.

Yep, it's for real. Swear to God.

writerterri said:

You'll have to excuse my papy. He took to much of one medication and not enough of the other. We'll have to fix his dosages.


I will now live in fear of me being photographed and added to that list.


I'd love to meet the guy in the tutu. He must have a great sense of humor.

And...If we cain't find it at Walmart we ain't gettin' it!

My kids know I'm serious about this too.

I have a feeling this thread may not do very well.

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I'd like to have a chat with the tutu man, myself.

I told you, I'm a Walmart shopper. Everything else is a drive. I think my worst fashion crime at a Walmart is probably wearing sweats or having a bad hair day--or allowing my 2 year old to go shopping in a plush dog costume.

So, if I end up there, ah well... c'est la guerre.

Doesn't mean I can't enjoy the strange and wonderous plumage of the odd birds that flock to the Walmart aisles. I've gotten an especially unusual eyefull when forced to make a late-night run after 10pm.